Nick Goody

Goody turned in an excellent season for Cleveland in 2017, but he's an extreme flyball pitcher (48.4 percent flyball rate last season) without a clear path to regular save opportunities. Of course, th...

Goody came seemingly out of nowhere to impress in the upper levels of the minor leagues in 2015, and he continued that progress with a 1.93 ERA and 13.5 K/9 with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in 2016. He hasn't yet been able to translate that success in the majors, where he got knocked around to the tune of a 4.66 ERA and 1.45 WHIP, with the latter being boosted by command issues. The young righty also gave up seven home runs in just 29 innings in the big leagues -- more than he had given up in the minors the last two seasons combined. He was designated for assignment this offseason, so he will really need to improve his command to earn his way back onto the 40-man roster.

2016

Goody burst onto the scene in 2015 after a few unremarkable seasons at the lower levels. The 24-year-old had only pitched 16 innings at Double-A coming into the season, but worked to a 1.73 ERA there en route to earning his first promotion to Triple-A. Goody continued his success with a 1.31 ERA at Triple-A and finished his minor league season with 84 strikeouts in 62.1 innings across both levels. He struggled a bit after getting a call up to the big leagues though, and he wasn't able to miss bats as regularly as he was in the minors. If Goody can build on his minor league success during spring training, then he could earn a spot in the big league bullpen on Opening Day but he likely won't see too many high leverage situations.